The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

have in your vestf said the man 20. that |
is the New Testament he said, Il thought |
would carry it with me If / really did go
overheard" How well that boy was pro-
tectedl care not how great the height or
how vast the depth, with Christ within us,
and Christ beneath US, and Christ above US.
and Christ all around us, nothing shall befaIl
US in the way of harm Christ Himself,
having been in the tempest, win deliver all
those who put their trust in Him Blessed be
His glorious name forever.
The third instalment paid for our redemp-
ton was the Saviour's sham trial. / call it
a sham trial-taere has never been any thing
50 indecent or unfair in the Tombs court OF
New York as was witnessed at the trial Of
Christ Why, they hustled Him into the
court room at O'Clock in the morning They
gave Him time for counsel They gave
Him no opportunity for subpoenaing wit
nesses. The ruffians who were wandering
around through the midnight, Of course they
saw the arrest and went into the court room.
But Jesus friends were sober men, were re-
spectacle men, and at that hour, O'Clock in
the morning, of course they were at home
asleep Consequently Christ entered she
court room with the ruffians.
Oh look at Him. No one to speak a word
for Him. lift the lantern until can look
into His face, and as my heart beats in sym
pathy for this, the best friend the world
ever had, Himself now utterly friendless, an
officer Of the court room comes up and smites
Him in the mouth, and see the blood steal
ing from gum and lip. Oh, it was farce If
trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and
then the Judge rises for the SENTENCED 1t is
against the law to give sentence unless there
has been an adjournment of the court be
tween condemnation and sentence: but what
cares this Judge for the lawl 1.-THE
man has no friends-let him die,D says
the Judge and the ruffians outside the
rail cry: "Ahai aha! that's what we
want-His blood Hand him out here to us.
Away with him away with him! Oh, l bless
God that amid all the injustice that may be
| inflicted upon US in this world we have dI-
vine sympathizer. The world cannot lie
about you nor abuse you as much as they did
| Christ, and Jesus stands to-day in every
court room, in every home, in every store,
and says: "Couragel By all my hours of
maltreatment and abuse, will protect those
who are trampled on" And when Christ
| forgets that 2 o'clock morning scene, and the
| stroke of the rufIian on the mouth, and the
| bowling of the unwashed crowd, then NE will
| forget you and me in the injustices of life
that may he inflicted upon us.
Some of you want deliverance from your
troubles. God knows you have enough OF
them. Physical troubles, domestic troubles.
| spiritual troubles, financial troubles. You
have been gathering them up, some perhaps
| for five or six, or seven years, and You have
| them divided into two classes-those you can
talk about and those you cannot talk about;
| and as those griefs are the most grinding and
| depressing which you cannot mention, you get
coincidence for the things you can speak Of,
| while you get no coincidence for the things
| that you cannot. In your school days you
| learned how to bound the states and could
| tell what rivers and lakes and mountains ran
| through them. If you were asked today
TO bound your worldly estate you would
| say it is bounded on the north by trouble, and
| ON the south by trouble, and on the east by
| trouble, and on the west by trouble, while
rivers of tears and lakes of woe and noun
tains of disaster run through it. What are
you going to do with your troubles! Why
do you not go to the theatre and have your
mind absorbed in some tragedy. "Oh," you
| say, everything / have seen on the boards OF
| the stage is tame compared with the tragedy
| of my own lifep Well, then, why do you
| not go to your trunks and closets and gather
| up all the mementoes of your departed friends
| and put them out of sight, and take down
| their pictures from the wall and put
| in the frame a harvest scene or some
| bright and gay spectaclel "Ah," you say,
''if should remove all these mementoes of
my departed friends, that would not take
away the killing pictures that are hanging in
the gallery of my own heart" Wen, if that
does not help you, why do you not plunge
into society and try to wash off in worldly
gayeties all these ASSIGNMENTS of the soul!
| "Oh," you say, ~ have tried thatl but how
| can / hear other children laugh when my
| children are silenti How can | other
happy families when my own happy family
is broken upl Trouble, trouble!" But do
you gain anything by brooding over your
misfortunes, by sitting down in a dark room,
| by comparison of the sweet past with the
bitter present? mo; that makes things
| worse" But have to tell you to-day that
the Christ of all sympathy presents Himself.
Is there anybody in this house that can get
along without sympathy7 l do not think l
| would live a day without it. And yet there
| are great many who seem to get along
without any divine sympathy. Their fortune
| in the counting room, or in the store, or in
| the insurance company, takes wings and flies
| away. They button up a penniless pocket
| They sit down in penury where once they had
afiluence, and yet there is no Jesus to stand
by them and say: "Oh, man, there are
| treasures that never fail, in banks that never
| break | will take care of you. | own the
| cattle ON a thousand hills, and you shall never
| want" They have no such divine Saviour to
| say that to them. / do not know how
they get along. Death comes to the
nursery One voice less in the house
hold. One less fountain O. joy and
| laughter Two hands less to be busy all day.
| Two feet less to bound through the hall
Shadow after shadow following through that
household, yet no Jesus to stand there and say:
IL am the shepherd. That lamb is not lost.
l I fn, off bo Gold tain ~
Oh, can you tell me the mysteryi Can you
| solve itl Tell me how it is that men and
women with aches, and pains, and sor-
| rows, and losses, and exasperations, and be-
reavements, can get along without SYM
pathizing Christi / cannot understand it.
But come here to say this morning that il
you really want divine sympathy you can
have it. There are two or three passages of
Scripture that throb with pity and kindness
AID love. Cast thy burden on the Lord and
he will sustain theen aCome unto Me all We
who are weary and heavy laden and will
give you rest Oh, there are green pastures
where the heavenly shepherd leads the sick
and wounded of the flocki When all the
other trees of the orchard fail, God has one
tree of fruit for his dear children Though
the organ walls out its requiem, there comes
afterward a song, a chant, an anthem, a bat
tie march, a coronation, victory. Do you
. not want the sympathy of Jesuss / offer it
this morning to every man and woman in this
, house; you need him Oh, how much you
need him!
There was a chaplain in the army wounded
, unto death. While lying there on the field
he heard at great distance off some one cry
, | ing out in great pain: "Oh, my Godlr and he
, said to himself: II nm dying, but l think,
perhaps could help that man. Although /
can't walk, I'll just roll over to where he is. >
So he rolled over in his own blood and rolled
over the bodies of the slain, and rolled on
until he came to where the other man was
dying, and put, as it Were, his wound against
| that wound, and his sorrow against that sor-
| row, and helped to alleviate it. And so it
seems TO me that Jesus Christ hears the groan
of our sorrow, the groan of our poverty, the
groan of our wretchelness and comes to the
relief. He comes rolling over sin and sorrow
to the place where we lie on the battlefield,
and He puts over us the arm of His everlast-
ing love; and l see that arm and hand are
wounded, and as He puts that arm over us I
can hear him say: Il have loved thee with an
everlasting love- Oh, that you might feel
sympathizing Jesus!
Further, i remark The last great INSTALL
ment paid for our redemption was the demise
OF Christ The world has seen many dark
days About fifteen summers ago there was
| a very dark day when the sun was eclipsed
The fowl at MONDAY went to their perch, and
we felt a gloom as we looked at the astronom-
ical wonder. 1t was dark day in London
when the plague was Mt its height, and the
dead with uncovered faces were taken in open
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